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Windows 8 will have two versions of Internet Explorer 10: a conventional browser that lives on the legacy desktop, and a new Metro-style, touch-friendly browser that lives in the Metro world. The second of these, the Metro browser, will not support any plugins. Whether Flash, Silverlight, or some custom business app, sites that need plugins will only be accessible in the non-touch, desktop-based browser.
Should one ever come across a page that needs a plugin, the Metro browser has a button to go to that page within the desktop browser. This yanks you out of the Metro experience and places you on the traditional desktop.
The rationale is a familiar one: plugin-based content shortens battery life, and comes with security, reliability, and privacy problems. Sites that currently depend on the capabilities provided by Flash or Silverlight should switch to HTML5.
Microsoft has been vigorously promoting HTML5 for the last year and a half as the best way of providing rich interactivity on the Web. HTML5 potentially has reach far beyond that of Flash, since it can target both conventional browsers and closed ecosystems (such as iOS) alike. However, until now, Microsoft's messaging has been tempered somewhat: use HTML5 when you can, but if you can't—if you need support for DRM-protected media streaming, for example—then it's reasonable to switch to an alternative, plugin-based technology.
With Windows 8, however, those reasonable decisions to use Flash or Silverlight will now be heavily penalized. Technically, there's nothing wrong with the desktop browser, of course; the rendering engine and performance will be identical between both Metro and desktop. But the experience will be substantially inferior. The desktop browser isn't designed for touch inputs, meaning that users will either have to switch to a mouse and keyboard, or fumble around with an interface that wasn't built for fingers. The switch to the desktop browser also appears to discard things like back button history and current page state.
This puts the Metro browser in a peculiar position. Microsoft has positioned tablets as merely a different kind of PC. That, the company argues, affords capabilities and features not possible on iPad-style devices. But PCs have browser plugins—more generally, they have the ability to use the right technology for the job. If Metro doesn't include that flexibility, that could be seen as diminishing the "PCness" of the platform.
HTML5 still isn't a total replacement for plugin technologies, either. The gap is certainly narrowing: Web Sockets, Web Workers, built-in support for webcams and microphones, and more, are all coming to HTML5 browsers (or are available already), and these features will obviate the need for plugins for many applications. But certain corners are likely to remain; DRM-protected video, for example, might forever be impossible in HTML5, and while many people find DRM distasteful, many broadcasters feel they have little choice but to use it.
The solution to this conundrum on the iOS platform has been the app: companies like Netflix and the BBC have applications to watch video on these devices. The result is that in the desire to push an open, plugin-free Web, companies are being forced to migrate away from the Web entirely. Silverlight developers, at least, will have an easy migration path available to them: the new Metro development environment, used for producing native Metro applications, borrows heavily from Silverlight, and making the switch from an in-browser plugin-based application to a standalone Metro application should be relatively easier. Flash developers will have to wait to see what tools Adobe delivers.
HTML5 design and developer tools also remain weak, though this situation is improving with the creation of products like Adobe Edge.
With Microsoft's promotion of HTML5, and the precedent set by iOS, the decision to get rid of plugins in the Metro browser is perhaps unsurprising. But it's not clear that this will truly help Windows 8; the awkward user experience penalizes users who, for no fault of their own, need to use plugins, and detracts from Windows 8's PC claims. A switch to a more HTML5-powered Web will happen regardless—does Microsoft really need to force the issue like this?

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US says Syrian attack killed 1,429
WASHINGTON — Edging toward a retaliatory strike, the Obama administration bluntly accused the Syrian government of Bashar Assad on Friday of launching a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 1,429 people — far more than previous estimates — including more than 400 children.
''Some cite the risk of doing things'' in response, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a speech that acknowledged that Americans at home and U.S. allies abroad are weary of war. ''But we need to ask what is the risk of doing nothing.''
Halfway around the world, U.N. personnel carried out a fourth day of inspection as they sought to determine precisely what happened in the attack last week. Videotapes said to be taken at the scene show victims writhing in pain, twitching and exhibiting other symptoms associated with exposure to nerve agents. The international contingent arranged to depart Syria on Saturday and head to laboratories in Europe with the samples they have collected.
Residents of Damascus stocked up on food and other necessities in anticipation of strikes, although no signs of panic or shortages were evident.
''We got used to the sound of shelling'' after three years of civil war, said Kheireddine Nahleh, a 53-year-old government employee. ''Death is the same, be it with a mortar or with an American missile. I'm not afraid.''
President Barack Obama met with his national security aides at the White House as aides insisted he has not yet made a decision to attack military facilities belonging to the Syrian government.
Even so, the administration did nothing to discourage the predictions that he would — and soon.
''Our approach is to continue to find an international coalition that will act together,'' said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, on a trip to the Philippines.
U.S. warships were in place in the Mediterranean Sea armed with cruise missiles, long a first-line weapon of choice for presidents because they can find a target hundreds of miles distant without need of air cover or troops on the ground.
White House officials previewed the intelligence findings Thursday night in a telephone briefing for senior members of Congress.
The Assad government has accused rebels of carrying out the attacks.
The looming confrontation is the latest outgrowth of a civil war in which Assad has tenaciously — and brutally — clung to power. An estimated 100,000 civilians have been killed in more than two years, many of them as a result of attacks by the Syrian government on its own citizens.
Obama has long been wary of U.S. military involvement in the struggle, as he has been with turbulent events elsewhere during the so-called Arab Spring. In this case, reluctance stems in part from a recognition that while Assad has ties to Iran and the terrorist group Hezbollah, the rebels seeking to topple him have connections with al-Qaida terrorist groups.
Still, he declared more than a year ago that the use of chemical weapons would amount to a ''red line'' that Assad should not cross. And Obama approved the shipment of small weapons and ammunition to the Syrian rebels after an earlier reported chemical weapons attack, although there is little sign that the equipment has arrived.
With memories of the long Iraq war still fresh, the political cross-currents have been intense both domestically and overseas.
Dozens of lawmakers, most of them Republican, have signed a letter saying Obama should not take military action without congressional approval, and top leaders of both political parties are urging the president to consult more closely with Congress before giving an order to launch hostilities.
Despite the urgings, there has been little or no discussion about calling Congress back into session to debate the issue. Lawmakers have been on a summer break for nearly a month, and are not due to return to the Capitol until Sept. 9.
Obama's efforts to put together an international coalition to support military action have been more down than up.
French President Francois Hollande has endorsed punitive strikes, and told the newspaper Le Monde that the ''chemical massacre of Damascus cannot and must not remain unpunished.''
But British Prime Minister David Cameron's attempt to win a vote of approval in Parliament for military action ended in ignominious defeat on Thursday. American attempts to secure backing at the United Nations have been blocked by Russia, long an ally of Syria.
United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon has urged a delay in any military action until the inspectors can present their findings to U.N. member states and the Security Council.


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As many of you may have already heard The People's Library in solidarity with Occupy Tucson recently launched an action called Operation Book Bomb Tucson. In response to the disgraceful decision of the Tucson Unified School District to end the ten-year old Mexican-American Studies program, and to ban books from the school curriculum The People's Library is holding a series of teach-ins/book drives to support the Mexican-American community both in Tucson and throughout the U.S. We are collecting copies of the seven banned texts as well as Spanish language books, books on Mexican history, and books on Latino culture to ship out to the students and teachers of Tucson. We want to let the Mexican-American community know that we are not indifferent to their struggles, and to let the Tucson Unified School District know that a threat to educational freedom somewhere is a threat to educational freedom everywhere. Here is how you can help us.
We have received some generous donations of books from publishers throughout the U.S. including Arte Público Press, NYU Press, and The Southwest Organizing Project. Follow these links and you can ship us copies of the seven banned books to add to our book bomb. We want to ship as many copies of them as we can out to the students and teachers of Tucson. The first two books listed can be purchased at 50% off thanks to the good people at Arte Público. Just let them know you are purchasing books for Operation Book Bomb Tucson! We encourage you to support publishers and your local independent bookstores with your purchases, but if you need to shop elsewhere online, we've also provided some links to Powell's Books. Click the links below to purchase any of the titles below.
Message to Aztlán by Rodolfo Gonzales
Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement by F. Arturo Rosales
Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures by Elizabeth Martinez
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Rethinking Columbus by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos by Rodolfo Acuña from Powell's Books
All books can be shipped to:
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Attn: The People's Library/Operation Tucson
118A Fulton St. #205
New York, NY 10038
Additionally we will be holding book donation drives and teach-ins here in New York City. Our first book donation event will be held at the next Occupy Town Square on Sunday, February 26 in Tompkins Square Park from 11AM to 5PM.
Our second event will be held at Word Up Community Bookshop, 4157 Broadway @ 176th St in Washington Heights on Thursday, March 1, from 7PM-9PM
featuring special guest speaker Chris Hedges. Please bring any books to these two events that you would like to donate to Operation Book Bomb Tucson. Keep those books coming and we will update you on our progress here. Thank you for supporting us and for supporting educational freedom everywhere.


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To donate to the search efforts visit texasequusearch.org. Donations should be directed to the Texas EquuSearch S/V Nina Search Fund.
Official search efforts were suspended weeks ago, but the family of Evi Nemeth has not given up hope that the retired University of Colorado professor and six other people aboard a yacht that went missing in early June off the coast of New Zealand will be found alive.
Nemeth's son, Laszlo Nemeth, said the families of the missing are now working with a Texas-based nonprofit organization to locate the vessel and its passengers.
Nemeth, a renowned computer engineer who taught computer science at CU for more than 20 years, was last heard from on June 4 when the 73-year-old sent a text message to a meteorologist looking for a weather update as she and six others aboard the vintage schooner the 'Nina' made their way through the Tasman Sea between New Zealand and Australia.
Crews with the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand spent 12 days over three weeks in late June and early July searching for the 85-year-old Nina. Planes from the New Zealand Air Force were used to cover more than 737,000 square nautical miles around the yacht's last known location, which officials estimated to be about 426 miles northwest of Cape Reigna, near New Zealand's northern tip.
No trace of the Nina was found, and on July 6 the centre announced that search efforts had been suspended pending any new information about its whereabouts.
Laszlo Nemeth, who remains in New Zealand after arriving there July 1, in an email sent Saturday wrote that shortly after the search was suspended, the father of one of Evi Nemeth's fellow sailors recommended reaching out to the Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team.
The nonprofit organization, launched in 2000, is funded entirely through donations and conducts searches around the world, according to its website.
Laszlo Nemeth, and the families of Nina captain David Dyche III, 58; his wife Rosemary, 60; and their 17-year-old son David Dyche IV, all of Florida, Matthew Wootton, 35, of England, Kyle Jackson, 27, of Nebraska, and Danielle Wright, 19, of Louisiana, hope the organization will help track down the vessel soon.
"We firmly believe they are alive but running out of time," Laszlo Nemeth wrote Saturday.
In a news release posted on its website Thursday, Texas EquuSearch representatives wrote that the Nina's crew, "is experienced and can survive at sea with natural resources including fresh water from rain and food from fishing and that stored on-board."
A group of volunteers have compiled and are examining data from Iridium satellite phones, government and private imaging satellites and offshore weather buoys owned by the New Zealand, Australian and U.S. governments to continue the search efforts, according to the release.
The release encourages people to donate to the search efforts, saying the nonprofit wants to make a proposal to the New Zealand Air Force to continue the search.
"To do this we may need to supply the fuel for the turbojet engines of the search aircraft," the release says.
Laszlo Nemeth said the search area grows larger everyday. He noted that search officials were able to retrieve an undelivered text message sent from Nina's satellite phone system, also sent on June 4, that stated "storm sails shredded last night" and "now bare poles." He said the location from which that was sent is farther northwest than the original estimates of the Nina's last known location.
He said the families are reaching out to politicians in their areas, including U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, to increase awareness and U.S. government involvement in the search.
He encouraged people to donate to the search efforts on the Texas EquuSearch website and appealed to those who may have inexpensive or free access to satellite data from the Tasman Sea area to provide any data they may have from May 29 onward.
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By Elizabeth Kendal
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin
Special to ASSIST News Service
The Margala Hills are all that lie between al-Qaeda-Taliban jihadists and their goal: nuclear-armed Islamabad. While most popular media reports give the impression that this crisis has only recently emerged, this is far from the case. The reality must be absorbed and lessons must be learned.
In 2003, as part of their 'War on Terror' alliance, America and Pakistan agreed that the Pakistani Army be given the job of eliminating al-Qaeda and Taliban elements in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA) of North West Frontier Province (NWFP). However, a high death toll — including the loss of possibly 3000 soldiers — weakened both Army moral and public resolve, creating domestic political problems for then-president General Musharraf.
In pursuit of political gain, Musharraf brokered 'land-for-peace' deals with the al-Qaeda-Taliban alliance. In February 2005 South Waziristan was ceded, followed by North Waziristan in September 2006. With this 'peace', the military withdrew and jihadists were released from prison with compensation on a mere pledge not to engage in terrorism. If there were a turning point in the 'War on Terror', this unconditional surrender of Waziristan was surely it, for the power of the al-Qaeda-Taliban alliance has grown in both Afghanistan and Pakistan ever since.
The jihadists were never going to be pacified so long as their goal — the total Islamisation and Talibanisation of fortress Afghanistan and nuclear-armed Pakistan — remained unchanged and unrealised. The 'Islamic Republic of Waziristan' simply became a terrorist sanctuary and launching pad for further advances. Within months several more tribal areas had fallen under Taliban control. ('Land-for-peace' deals with agenda-driven fundamentalist Islamists and jihadists secure incremental Islamist advance, not peace.)
In July 2007 the government's assault on the Islamists of the Lal Masjid (the Red Mosque in the centre of Islamabad) left some 100 Islamists dead. (The Islamists say thousands died, including children.) Consequently in September 2007 Al-Qaeda declared jihad against the government of Pakistan and the war was on in earnest. This war pits a determined al-Qaeda-Taliban alliance (with numerous high-level sympathisers) against an unstable and equivocating Pakistani government and a conflicted and divided Pakistani Army plagued by Pashtun and Sunni defections.
In the 18 months since, the jihadists have held or captured all the tribal areas. In February 2009 President Asif Ali Zardari brokered a 'sharia-for-peace' deal with the Taliban in Malakand Division which comprises one third of NWFP and includes the glorious, albeit Taliban-held, Swat Valley. All of NWFP is now either ceded to the Taliban or under some degree of Taliban control or influence.
Emboldened by its Malakand victory and its advances in strategic Peshawar, the Taliban launched its Spring Offensive with a further escalation. In early April a more united Taliban (see RLP 518, 23 Feb 2009) surged with little resistance south east from Swat (towards Islamabad) into Buner District in a 'blitzkreig'. From there they quickly infiltrated Haripur District which borders the outskirts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. According to most Western and Indian analysis and intelligence, Pakistan's fall is inevitable and imminent, although according to Pakistan, this assessment is 'ridiculous'.
The Church in Pakistan's NWFP is already suffering severe repression and persecution under Taliban tyranny. Christians there are living in fear and paying jizya, the'tax' or protection money demanded of subjugated Jews and Christians in the Quran (Sura 9:29). Their lives are always in the balance. The Church in Islamabad stands on the brink of the same fate. If the al-Qaeda-Taliban alliance manages to capture Islamabad in the months ahead, the world will instantly become a different place, and the Church in Islamabad and across Pakistan will see suffering and persecution unlike anything it has ever known before.
Report from the Christian Telegraph


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Every so often I publish a blog post either about hunting or with a picture of an elk steak in it. Usually after this I get at least one or two questions about how to prepare game meat so that it doesn't taste so "gamey." I hear lots of people saying they would hunt but they don't like the taste of the meat, or that they just don't know how to cook it. Likewise, whenever we serve game to friends and family, we get lots of surprised comments about how flavorful and good the meat is, not at all gamey as they expected.
Since hunting season is just around the corner for many parts of the country, and since our family mainly eats game meat, I thought I'd share a bit about how we process and cook the meat, and how we deal with the "gaminess" of venison and other meats. Over the next couple of weeks I plan to publish a series of hunting related posts, including recipes for cooking wild game.
Making wild game into a delicious meal was learned through trial and error over the last nine years of cooking and processing game. We've made some discoveries that have really helped us. When people refer to venison as gamey they are either speaking of the toughness or dryness that often occurs when cooking the meat, the distinctly wild flavor, or both. It's a bit backwards but I'm going to talk about cooking game meat first. This addresses the toughness and dryness of venison. In part two, I'll talk about harvesting and processing game and how that directly affects the taste of your meat.
Venison is not beef.
It might seem obvious, but deer, elk and antelope are all very different from cattle.
When you cook beef, the fat and marbling you should look for when buying a steak keeps the meat moist, tender and flavorful. A delicious juicy steak depends on it's fat. Nicely marbled beef can be tender and choice even cooked past medium. This is because cattle is mainly fed corn to fatten them up (literally, to fatten them).
If you've ever cooked grass-fed beef, you know what I'm talking about. Grass-fed beef is leaner than conventional corn-fed beef. Often grass-fed beef is "finished" on corn (meaning the last few weeks of it's life it gets corn to add in some fat). And even if it is not, grass-fed beef still has more fat than venison. Cows are bred to stand around and eat. Cattle ranchers make an effort to keep their cattle from using their muscles. Even if not confined, they don't want them running around. They want lazy, fat, contented cows. They want tender muscle. 1,400 pounds of well-marbled, tender muscle.
We all know a muscle that is exercised gets harder, tougher, stronger.
Deer (and certainly antelope) don't just stand around all day filling their stomachs. They live their lives using their muscles. They have to keep on the move, running and jumping, staying away from predators. They have to search out water and food. Their food is not usually a lush field of grass or corn (unless they are Nebraskan whitetail). It's often patches of under-brush, sage and other soft-wooded plants. Deer eat twigs and bark and shoots. They are nearly fat-free beings, trim at 150 (or perhaps 400 for an elk) pounds, with the hardened muscles of athletes.
This means you can not cook venison the same way as you cook beef. While you might like your beef steak medium- to medium-rare, your venison needs to be much closer to rare, else it becomes shoe leather. It generally should not be cooked well-done or it will be ruined, dry and tough.
Likewise, grouse, pheasant and duck are not chickens. You must add fat when cooking grouse and pheasant. Duck is an entirely different bird and it's breasts can be treated as red meat, cooked to medium-rare or medium.
How to cook wild game:
To start with, use thick cuts of meat. If you get your game processed by a butcher, ask them to cut your steaks an inch thick or thicker. Or if you process your meat yourself, use a ruler or make yourself a template when cutting, so your steaks don't end up too thin. The idea here is to preserve moisture as much as possible and not over-cook the meat. Deer and elk steaks are going to be smaller than beef steaks anyway, so if your steaks are thicker, you have more leeway with this. Remember, you can always cut your meat thinner if you need to later, or for other uses as you get used to cooking your game.
Venison greatly benefits from a marinade. Most of the time we, at the very least, drizzle our elk, deer or antelope steaks with olive oil and let them sit in it for 20 minutes to half an hour before we cook them. Olive oil, crushed garlic and thyme is a great, simple combination.
Before cooking we also add fat to the pan (or grill). Heat your pan and add a bit more olive oil. Then cook the steak, flipping once, being careful not to over-cook it. Remember that venison is smaller and less forgiving than beef, so keep a close eye.
Bacon grease and lard are delicious, traditional ways to add fat to your venison. A lard-seared elk steak, to die for. Onions sauteed in bacon grease, the perfect base for a venison stew. Or keep it simple with olive oil.
After cooking, let your venison steaks rest for up to ten minutes, covered, before serving.
Notice that I didn't mention salt? This is because salt draws moisture from meat. When cooking venison, salt should be added just before serving.
Important to remember here is that you can't just take a beef recipe and make it into a venison recipe without accounting for the leanness of the meat. You want to do your utmost to preserve the meat's juices and moisture.
If you enjoy stir-fry and fajitas, I recommend using a flank-type steak, cooked whole to medium-rare and then thinly slicing. Only add the sliced steak into the pan for the last few seconds (if at all).
Check out websites like Field and Stream's The Wild Chef blog or Hunter-Angler-Gardener-Cook for lots of delicious, trusted game recipes.
If you've enjoyed what I've posted about cooking wild game so far, please subscribe to have my future posts shown in your RSS feed or emailed directly to your inbox by using the form in the sidebar at the right. Thanks for reading.


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The Parke County Clerk Office maintains public records for a county or local government, including records on unclaimed property. This can include property transferred through a will or gift deed, overpayments on taxes or tax refunds, or other moneys owed by the government. An unclaimed property search in Parke County can find money or property that has not been claimed by an individual or a relative. The Clerk Office may provide an online database to find unclaimed property in Parke County, Indiana.
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The Parke County Recorder of Deeds preserves real estate documents for a county or local government as part of their job to ensure the accuracy of land, property, and property tax records. Recorders of Deeds may also provide information on Parke County unclaimed property, including property transferred through a will or gift deed. Unclaimed property information may be available on the Recorder of Deeds website through a searchable database.
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The Parke County Veterans Affairs Department is a federal agency that provides services to veterans, including providing life insurance to service members. In some cases, policyholders or their beneficiaries may have unclaimed insurance funds which are owed to them, which are considered Parke County unclaimed property. The Veterans Affairs Department provides an online search database to identify unclaimed life insurance funds owed to people in Parke County, Indiana.
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Earlier today I attended Geila Hocherman's cooking demo and book signing (of her Kosher Revolution) at The Peppermill (5015 16th Avenue, Brooklyn – Tel: 718.871.4022) in Borough Park.
Amidst shelves, racks and baskets filled with interesting cookware and a plethora of exotic ingredients barely seen or hardly even found in kosher stores (THEY HAVE CHOLOV YISROEL…. DULCE DE LECHE!!!!! I haven't seen that since I left Uruguay in 1962!), Geila demonstrated four dishes to an enthusiastic audience.
She started with Surimi Crab Cakes with Red Pepper Mayonnaise (Kosher Revolution, Page 72)…
She then followed with Fried Pea and Parmesan Ravioli (page 43) and Shiitake-Tofu Dumplings (page 42)….
The crab cakes were incredibly tasty, the ravioli crisp and perfect, the shiitake dumplings were superbly delicious, but the best was yet to come!
The demo ended with Pistachio- Crusted Tuna with Wasabi Mayonnaise (page 78), delicious, perfect… frankly neither of those two words do it justice. While some preferred it well done and fully browned, I preferred it where you could still the red color. Truly a great way to crown a demo where unusual combinations of ingredients, and dishes one would not have thought of as part of the kosher diet were de rigueur. Verily, a Kosher Revolution, but… you expect nothing less from Geila.
The staff, all comprised of members of one family, was knowledgeable and helpful. I've been to many a store, many a foodie haven, and The Peppermill (5015 16th Avenue, Borough Park in Brooklyn – Tel: 718.871.4022) ranks among the best.
Two of the sisters-in-law, part of The Peppermill's team (Chayale Braver and Rivkie Braver) will talk about their unusual store on our internet radio show this evening at 8:00pm (Eastern Time), be sure to listen in to what promises to be an interesting and entertaining show.
Meanwhile, if you missed it, give a listen to last week's show when our guest was Gary Landsman from the Royal Wine Corporation.
Hoping you will be listening,


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The Federal Communications Commission today enacted a set of rules governing the sale and deployment of wireless signal boosters, devices consumers use to improve cell phone signals. More than 2 million of these devices are in use across the country, and until now consumers who bought them could just turn them on and let them work their magic.
Not anymore. Anyone who buys one of these devices from now on must seek the permission of carriers. Even the 2 million devices already in use must be turned off immediately unless their owners register them. The FCC states in an FAQ:
Did the FCC recently adopt new rules for signal boosters?
Yes. The FCC recently adopted new rules to improve signal booster design so these devices won't cause interference to wireless networks. The FCC also adopted new rules about what cell phone users need to do before using a signal booster.
I already have a signal booster; do I need to do anything under the new rules?
Yes. Under the FCC's new rules, you (1) need your wireless provider's permission to use the booster, and (2) must register the booster with your wireless provider. Absent your provider's permission, you may not continue using your booster.
For practical purposes, there is a good chance you could keep using that device without getting any threatening legal letters. But technically, the FCC could issue fines to customers who fail to comply, Public Knowledge Legal Director Harold Feld told Ars. There's no word yet on what will happen to consumers who fail to register or whether carriers would actively seek them out.
(UPDATE: The FCC has already changed the language on that FAQ, indicating that the onus may not be on owners of existing devices to register with carriers. The FCC deleted the sentence that says "Absent your provider's permission, you may not continue using your booster." Instead, it now says, "If a wireless provider or the FCC asks you to turn off your signal booster because it is causing interference to a wireless network, you must turn off your booster and leave it off until the interference problem can be resolved. When the new rules go into effect, you will be able to purchase a booster with additional safeguards that protect wireless networks from interference." For buyers of new devices, the FAQ does still say that "[b]efore use, you must register this device with your wireless provider and have your provider's consent.")
There are good reasons for the FCC to regulate these devices. They could cause interference with cellular networks, even if the ones today generally haven't been too problematic. Everyone from consumer advocates to booster device makers, carriers, and the FCC agrees that standards to prevent interference are good. But Feld, other consumer advocates, and the makers of these devices say it's unfair to consumers to make them register with carriers.
Carriers aren't ready to detail registration policies
Major carriers haven't said how the registration process will work, but one conceivable outcome is that they could charge customers an extra fee to use boosters, like they do with other devices that improve signals.
Wireless boosters are "saving the carriers money by not making them build more towers, but now they can charge you for improving the holes in their own network," Feld said.
Requiring a specific carrier's permission is odd, because a wireless booster can be used to improve signals on just about any network, said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation. Calabrese helped advise the government on its recent spectrum sharing plan. "97 percent of the boosters sold are wideband boosters, meaning they amplify the signals of all carriers equally," Calabrese told Ars. "For some reason, the commission has delegated authority to the carrier."
(UPDATE: After this story ran, we got a more positive take on the registration requirement from Wilson Electronics, a signal booster manufacturer. "We don't see registration having a surcharge added to it-—or being an end-all scenario," the company said. "90+ carriers already gave blanket approval to boosters that meet the specs. And the [FCC] commissioners were clear about the registration not being cumbersome. They also mentioned that they suspect few people will actually register the products given that consent will already be given." Wilson did oppose the registration requirement, but said on the whole the ruling was good and should only affect poorly designed products. Wi-Ex, maker of zBoost boosters, said "consumers do not have to power down the zBoost consumer products. Our Boosters do not interfere with the wireless providers' networks—consumers can continue using them and look for the notice their provider will send them regarding registration of the product with them.")
If carriers are stingy with device approvals, households with subscriptions to multiple carriers could have to purchase one booster for each carrier—even though there's no technical reason preventing a single booster from covering phones from multiple carriers.
Even though consumers have to register devices they already bought, booster manufacturers were given one year to clear out existing inventory before they have to sell new hardware that meets the interference rules. If they can keep selling existing devices, it's difficult to imagine they've caused cellular providers too much trouble.
FCC commissioner Robert McDowell said, "wireless service providers have experienced some harmful interference with boosters interacting with their networks." McDowell also lauded boosters for improving signals, even in tunnels where cellular connections are often disrupted.
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said for millions of people, cellular service disruptions "are more than rare, trivial annoyances." Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said that 41 percent of children live in homes served only by cell phones and not landlines, making boosters one option for ensuring that emergency calls and doctor's calls can be completed.
In addition to consumer-strength boosters for homes, small offices, and vehicles, there are industrial-strength wireless boosters designed for airports, hospitals, stadiums, etc. Industrial-strength boosters have to meet stricter interference standards because they transmit at higher power levels than consumer-grade ones, and anyone who operates an industrial-class booster will need an FCC license.
Carriers both large and small have reportedly assured the FCC that they won't be unreasonable in providing approval for use of consumer-grade boosters.
We've asked Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint to provide information on how the registration process will work and whether consumers will have to pay any extra fees when using wireless signal boosters. We haven't gotten any specific answers, but that's not surprising. AT&T pointed out to us this afternoon that the FCC hadn't even released the text of its order yet. (The FCC has since released the order.)
The FCC booster FAQ we mentioned earlier says, "Most wireless providers consent to the use of signal boosters. Some providers may not consent to the use of this device on their network." In other words, carriers generally allow it, but they're not legally required to.
AT&T told us that it's "pleased that the FCC has adopted technical standards designed to protect our customers from interference caused by signal boosters while allowing well-designed boosters to remain in the marketplace. For these standards to be most effective, however, it is important that they are coupled with appropriate enforcement and consumer outreach."
Similarly, T-Mobile said it "supports the FCC's decision today to facilitate the deployment of well-designed third-party signal boosters that can improve wireless coverage, provided they meet technical criteria to prevent interference and that consumers obtain consent from their service provider. T-Mobile will have more to say on this topic once we've had a chance to review the FCC's Report and Order."
Sprint declined comment today, but has publicly supported the FCC rules. Verizon told us "Our goal is always to make things as simple as possible for customers, and will work to do so here as well."
FCC says it took the best deal it could get
After the FCC unanimously approved the new rules today, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was asked why the carrier-consent provision became part of the final order. He said that carriers have agreed to play nice, so the FCC let them decide which devices consumers get to use. He said the FCC could revisit its decision later on if carriers end up acting unreasonably.
"One of the things that helped facilitate an outcome here was the commitment by a number of carriers to provide that consent," Genachowski said. "Our goal is to put in place clear rules of the road that enable and authorize signal boosters for consumers as quickly as possible, but as part of a framework that prevents interference. We all said, 'You know what, this is the fastest way to get from A to B. Meanwhile, we're going to monitor this.' We expect it to work but we haven't ruled out other options for the future if for some reason it doesn't."
Feld accused the FCC of rolling over for carriers by giving them the right to reject wireless boosters that customers want to use. Calabrese called it "profoundly anti-consumer." Besides charging monthly fees, Calabrese said carriers could strike exclusive deals with device makers to make sure they get a cut of each device sale.
"They could change their mind at any point, and enter into a royalty agreement with a particular booster maker," he said.
Feld explains that the boosters take your cellular signal and increase its power so that it reaches a cell tower (whereas femtocells work by taking your cellular signal and dumping it onto your home wireline network). Wireless boosters could be particularly useful in rural areas and in emergency situations, when one tower is down but the booster allows a connection to a further tower, he said.
"What's particularly irritating is we've got about 2 million people who bought these devices in good faith," Feld said. "The FCC is requiring them to go and register with their carriers and get permission [to keep using them]."
Prior to the FCC decision, the CTIA Wireless Association said the commission should take the stance that "commercial wireless providers must consent to the use of signal boosters on their networks prior to their operation."
"For the past decade, manufacturers of signal boosters have marketed and sold these devices without properly informing consumers of the need to work with affected licensees prior to operating devices," the CTIA said.
Wireless signal booster maker Wilson Electronics pleaded its case with the FCC too, arguing that the registration requirement is nonsensical, given that new devices won't even hit the market unless they meet interference requirements. Wilson's boosters are designed for use in the home, offices, and vehicles, with devices costing anywhere from $140 to several hundred dollars.
"Now that the Commission is on the verge of adopting network protection standards that were collaboratively developed by carriers and manufacturers to safeguard wireless networks, it would defeat the purpose of the rulemaking for the Commission to decide to empower carriers to deny consumers access to robust boosters that have been designed to meet those very standards," Wison wrote in a letter to the FCC on Feb. 12.
Expanding Wi-Fi
The FCC today also approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to expand the amount of spectrum available to Wi-Fi in the 5GHz band by 195MHz, or about 35 percent. While the wireless booster decision was a final order, the spectrum one was preliminary and generally uncontroversial. The FCC is just beginning what might be a two-year process to expand the 5GHz band. Some interference concerns will have to be addressed. Read our previous coverage for more details.


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Confederate past: Uproar over changing park names
By ADRIAN SAINZ – Associated Press
Thursday – February 7, 2013
MEMPHIS, Tenn. —
The statue of Confederate fighter Nathan Bedford Forrest astride a horse towers above the Memphis park bearing his name. It's a larger-than-life tribute to the warrior still admired by many for fiercely defending the South in the Civil War – and scorned by others for a slave-trading past and ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Though the bloodiest war on American soil was fought 150 years ago, racially tinged discord flared before its City Council voted this week to strip Forrest's name from the downtown park and call it Health Sciences Park. It also voted to rename Confederate Park as Memphis Park and Jefferson Davis Park as Mississippi River Park.
A committee has been formed to help the council decide on permanent names for the parks.
The changes have drawn praise from those who said bygone reminders of the Confederacy had to be swept away in what today is a racially diverse city. Critics cried foul, saying moves to blot out such associations were tantamount to rewriting the history of a Mississippi River city steeped in Old South heritage.
The struggle over Forrest's legacy and moves to rename other parks highlights a broader national debate over what Confederate figures represent in the 21st century as a far more diverse nation takes new stock of the war on its 150th anniversary with the hindsight of the civil rights era.
Although the Forrest name change had been expected, a simultaneous move by the City Council to rename Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park was not. It arose quickly after council members learned of pending state legislation aimed at preventing the renaming any parks honoring wars or historical military figures.
Kennith Van Buren, a local African-American civil rights activist, said stripping away park names tied to the Confederacy or its leading figures were overdue.
"It's very offensive," he said. "How can we have unity in the nation when we have one city, right here in Memphis, which fails to be unified?"
Most of the emotion over the council's action has centered on Forrest. His defenders, mostly white, cite Forrest's accomplishments as an alderman, businessman and military leader. Critics, black and white, say honoring Forrest glorifies a slave trader and Ku Klux Klan member.
Katherine Blaylock, a Memphis resident who opposes the name changes, defended Forrest and accused the council of trying to rewrite history.
"Memphis has always been a racially divided city," Blaylock, 43, said after Tuesday's meeting. "It's been a big clash since way back when. We do what we can to come together and be a community, but the antagonists that keep bringing it out on both sides are the bad apples."
Forrest lived in Memphis before the Civil War, working as a cotton farmer and slave trader. Though lacking traditional military training, he rose to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army. He became legendary for fast horseback raids that disrupted the enemy's supply lines and communications.
Forrest also led the siege against Union-held Fort Pillow in 1864. With the clear advantage, Forrest ordered Union Maj. William Bradford and his troops to surrender. Forrest's men then stormed the fort and killed about 300 soldiers, half of them black. They also took black and white prisoners.
Questions linger whether the Union soldiers at Fort Pillow were killed as they tried to surrender. Northern newspaper reports referred to the battle as an atrocity, but some historians say the deaths were a consequence of battle.
Forrest later became a member of the Klan, which intimidated and threatened Southern blacks. His level of involvement in the Klan is a source of argument, and he is believed to have helped disband the first incarnation of the Klan in 1869.
Supporters praise him for offering to free 45 of his own slaves if they would serve in the Confederacy. They also claim Forrest was reluctant to divide families when he bought slaves.
Forrest died in 1877 and his body was moved to Forrest Park in the early 1900s. The tree-lined park about as large as a city block is just miles from the old Lorraine Hotel, the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968.
King's murder is a cloud that lingers over Memphis long after the civil rights leader was slain. Race remains an undercurrent in many aspects of daily life. Not until last year did the city name its first street for King.
This is not the first time Forrest Park has sparked acrid debate. Memphis officials, led by the city's black mayor, rejected an effort to rename it in 2005. Other cities in the U.S. have also wrestled with the issue of naming parks and buildings after Forrest.
In 2008, a majority white school board in Jacksonville, Fla., rejected an attempt to rename Nathan Bedford Forrest High School.
Last September, the City Council in Selma, Ala. voted to stop work on a monument honoring Forrest at a city cemetery after someone removed Forrest's bust from the site. The apparent theft had led to protests by civil rights advocates not to replace it.
And, in December, Dixie State College in Utah removed a bronze statue of Confederate soldiers from campus.
Tennessee also has a state park named for Forrest and a modern-day statue of him in Nashville erected on private land.
Civil War historian Harold Holzer said that while he thinks Forrest was an "evil character," history is not served by removing references to the past in public places.
However, moving forward, more cities are likely to follow Memphis' lead, Holzer said.
"Playing with names and titles and statues in a way to pretend that memory doesn't exist in a different plane for different people and different generations is a mistake," said Holzer, a Roger Hertog fellow at the New-York Historical Society. "It actually takes away from history."
The most recent move to rename the Memphis park began in January.
Councilman Myron Lowery proposed renaming Forrest Park after Ida B. Wells, a black journalist who exposed the horrors of lynching and fought for civil rights for African-Americans and women.
At a park committee meeting last month, Councilwoman Janis Fullilove left in tears after another council member, Bill Boyd, defended Forrest as a benefactor and promoter of black people after the Civil War.
Fullilove, who is black, denounced Boyd's comments as lies. Boyd, who is white, has proposed keeping Forrest's name on the park and renaming a separate city park after Wells.
Historians at Tuesday's meeting of the park commission meeting highlighted the ambiguity of Forrest's legacy.
Rhodes College historian Charles McKinney said Forrest represents subjugation and division. But historian and Sons of Confederate Veterans member Lee Millar said slave trading was a part of doing business in the South in Forrest's day.
"Forrest was known as a very humane slave trader," said Millar, who is white. "He never split families. He allowed his slaves for sale to seek their own master."
A committee including historians, council members and an NAACP representative will discuss what to permanently name the parks. Some black and white council members hope the process helps bring people together.
Others say the city needs to discuss more pressing matters such as crime and education.
"I don't care if it's named for Nathan Bedford Forrest," said Councilman Harold Collins, who is black. "He's a dead man."
Copyright 2013, Lake Wylie Pilot
On The Web: http://www.lakewyliepilot.com/2013/02/07/1803708/confederate-past-uproar-over-changing.html


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Microsoft and Symantec help smash cyber crime ring
Technicians raided data centers in the US together with Federal authorities.
Microsoft and Symantec disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers which controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users.
The move made it temporarily impossible for infected PCs around the world to search the web, though the companies offered free tools to clean machines through messages that were automatically pushed out to infected computers.
Technicians working on behalf of both companies raided data centers in Weehawken, New Jersey, and Manassas, Virginia, on Wednesday, accompanied by US federal marshals, under an order issued by the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
They seized control of one server at the New Jersey facility and persuaded the operators of the Virginia data center to take down a server at their parent company in the Netherlands, according to Richard Boscovich, assistant general counsel with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit.
Boscovich told Reuters that he had "a high degree of confidence" that the operation had succeeded in bringing down the cyber crime operation, known as the Bamital botnet.
"We think we got everything, but time will tell," he said.
The servers that were pulled off line on Wednesday had been used to communicate with what Microsoft and Symantec estimate are between 300,000 and 1 million PCs currently infected with malicious software that enslaved them into the botnet.
Hijacking searches
The companies said that the Bamital operation hijacked search results and engaged in other schemes that the companies said fraudulently charge businesses for online advertisement clicks.
Bamital's organizers also had the ability to take control of infected PCs, installing other types of computer viruses that could engage in identity theft, recruit PCs into networks that attack websites and conduct other types of computer crimes.
Now that the servers have been shut down, users of infected PCs will be directed to a site informing them that their machines are infected with malicious software when they attempt to search the web.
Microsoft and Symantec are offering them free tools to fix their PCs and restore access to web searches via messages automatically pushed out to victims.
The messages warn: "You have reached this website because your computer is very likely to be infected by malware that redirects the results of your search queries. You will receive this notification until you remove the malware from your computer."
It was the sixth time that Microsoft has obtained a court order to disrupt a botnet since 2010. Previous operations have targeted bigger botnets, but this is the first where infected users have received warnings and free tools to clean up their machines.
Microsoft runs a Digital Crimes Unit out of its Redmond, Washington, headquarters that is staffed by 11 attorneys, investigators and other staff who work to help law enforcement fight financial crimes and exploitation of children over the web.
Symantec approached Microsoft about a year ago, asking the maker of Windows software to collaborate in trying to take down the Bamital operation. Last week they sought a court order to seize the Bamital servers.
The two companies said they conservatively estimate that the Bamital botnet generated at least $1 million a year in profits for the organizers of the operation. They said they will learn more about the size of the operation after they analyse information from infected machines that check in to the domains once controlled by Bamital's servers.
Their complaint identified 18 "John Doe" ringleaders, scattered from Russia and Romania to Britain, the United States and Australia, who registered websites and rented servers used in the operation under fictitious names. The complaint was filed last week with a federal court in Alexandria and unsealed on Wednesday.
The complaint alleges that the ringleaders made money through a scheme known as "click fraud" in which criminals get cash from advertisers who pay websites commissions when their users click on ads.
Bamital redirected search results from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing search engines to sites with which the authors of the botnet have financial relationships, according to the complaint.
The complaint also charges that Bamital's operators profited by forcing infected computers to generate large quantities of automated ad clicks without the knowledge of PC users.
Symantec researcher Vikram Thakur said Bamital is just one of several major botnets in a complex underground "click fraud ecosystem" that he believes generates at least tens of millions of dollars in revenue.
He said that researchers at will comb the data on the servers in order to better understand how the click fraud ecosystem works and potentially identify providers of fraudulent ads and traffic brokers.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg in the world of click fraud," said Thakur.
Boscovich said he believes the botnet originated in Russia or Ukraine because affiliated sites install a small text file known as a cookie that is written in Russian on infected computers.
The cookie file contains the Russian phrase "yatutuzebil," according to the court filing. That can loosely be translated as "I was here," he said.
Microsoft provided details on the takedown operation on its blog.
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Kiss, Usher, J.Lo to perform at Fashion Rocks
Associated Press
NEW YORK – Kiss, Usher and Jennifer Lopez will perform at the Fashion Rocks concert this fall.
The Sept. 9 event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, will also feature Duran Duran, Miranda Lambert and Pitbull. It will air live on CBS at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
Ryan Seacrest will host the two-hour special, which celebrates the relationship between music and fashion. The event takes place during New York Fashion Week.
DJ-producer Afrojack, Rita Ora, Nico & Vinz and the Band Perry will also perform. More performers and presenters will be announced at a later date.
Tickets go on sale Aug. 1.


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Online shoppers are increasingly using mobile devices to buy gifts for the holidays, according to IBM's 2012 Holiday Benchmark Report, and those shoppers overwhelmingly prefer Apple's iPad and iPhone to do so. Black Friday purchases via mobile devices accounted for nearly one quarter of all sales for the busy holiday shopping day, up from 14.3 percent in 2011 and 5.2 percent in 2010. And, according to further analysis by Asymco, 77 percent of all those mobile purchase originated from an iOS device.
"The iPad generated more traffic than any other tablet or smart phone, reaching nearly 10 percent of [all] online shopping," IBM noted in a press release. "This was followed by iPhone at 8.7 percent and Android [at] 5.5 percent."
Asymco's Horace Dediu crunched the numbers further, showing that the share of online shoppers using Android devices has stalled, while the iPhone and iPad have grown significantly.
"Two years ago the iPad was trailing Android usage but this year it was more than twice Android usage," Dediu wrote. "Curiously, the iPhone seems to also be pulling ahead of Android."
Android has grown significantly in smartphone market share over the last couple of years, with the total number of Android users eclipsing the number of iPhone users. The iPad still owns the tablet market, though several recent challengers—such as the Nexus 7 and 10, and the Kindle Fire HD—have shown some early promise. But even as more Android users come online, fewer of them appear to be using the devices for online shopping.
"The bigger question is what is causing phone users to behave differently based on the devices they own," according to Dediu. "The phone market is more mature and has had several years of competition to be able to discern differences in platforms. The pattern is pretty clear with respect to Android: engagement is down as ownership is up. This pattern has not exhibited itself with iPhone, even though it has had a longer time in market."


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I had been editing a document for a client. I added some comments in the margin, as always – but when my client opened it and when I re-opened it, to my horror and his, all of the text boxes containing the comments had gone TINY and unreadable. It looked like this:
It apparently happens if you're working with a document originally created in an older version of Word which doesn't have the requisite Styles set up for comment boxes. You then work on it in Word 2007 or Word 2010 (this solution works for both!) and the horror happens …
It took me and Matthew longer than it should have to work out what to do, as there didn't seem to be an easily found solution if you searched for one online – so as an aide memoire for me, for next time it happens, and as a public service for anyone else trying to work out what to do … here's what you do (now edited to add screen shots).
Note for experts: if you're already familiar with Styles, note that you need to change the Balloon Text.
What to do if your comment boxes go tiny in Word documents:
Let's look at what the full horror looks like first of all:
First of all: don't panic! The comments will have typically gone into Times at 1 point. But there is a way to make them readable again.
Open the document. Don't highlight anything. Don't put the cursor into a comment box.
Now you can do one of two things. Either hit Control + Alt + Shift + s all at the same time, or make sure you're in the Home tab and click on the little tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Styles menu – this will bring up the full Styles dialogue box.
Using either of these methods, you will bring up the Styles dialogue box.
This looks like a very useful dialogue box, but for our purposes you need to ignore all of it except the three buttons at the bottom. Click on the rightmost button: Manage Styles to bring up yet another dialogue box.
We're not there yet: the sort order shows as Recommended – but you need to click on the down arrow to change it to Alphabetical:
Once it's in alphabetical order, it's relatively easy to find Balloon Text (note: not Comment text) and you will see that it then confirms how you have your text set up (blue circle). Click the Modify button …
Now you can change your font (which will probably have defaulted to Times) and font size (which will probably have defaulted to 1). You'll notice lots of other options (blue circle) to change the spacing, etc. – I don't usually worry about changing those, but this is where they are if you want them – and of course you use this menu to change the styles on headings, normal text, etc., too. Press the OK button, and carry on pressing OK buttons until you get back to your document.
And there it is, all changed:
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Want even more information on customising your comment boxes? Read this article full of everything you would ever want to know!
Related topics: What to do if your comment boxes start running from right to left
Changing the language in your comment balloons
Note that these tips are primarily for Word 2007, 2010 and 2013 for PC. Most of them will work for Word for Mac, although you may find some menus in different places. This is part of my series on how to avoid time-consuming "short cuts" and use Word in the right way to maximise your time and improve the look of your documents. Find all the short cuts here …
Do let me know if this has helped you, saved your bacon, etc. – and do share with the buttons at the bottom of this article.


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SANTE FE, NM – An alien was caught with a night vision camera – in the act of abducting a woman from her home.
New Mexico authorities were stunned when amateur photographer, Jeff Norris brought in a picture of an alien abducting his girlfriend, Jenna Hawser, from their apartment. Norris had just returned from Iraq and had a night vision camera.
Norris says he and Hawser were asleep in bed when the alien just appeared at the foot of the bed. Norris said he was frozen and couldn't move. The alien then picked up Hawser and started to walk away. Norris got up and tried to run at the alien, but "it felt like there was a force field stopping me."
He then fell to the ground right near his photography equipment. He picked up the night vision camera and caught the alien holding his girlfriend. "He seemed friendly, almost serene, but when I took the picture he got a little agitated and ran out of the apartment."
Norris hasn't seen his girlfriend in three days.
Sante Fe authorities called in Dr. John Malley of the U.N. Panel on Extraterrestrials and he examined the photos that Norris took. "We had the U.N. lab run tests and these photos are authentic and have not been manipulated at all. We have officially registered this as an alien abduction."
Malley went on to say that the alien was clearly "from Planet Zeeba." The Zeebans are part of an ongoing alien invasion, which started last October and will continue until December 2015 according to UFOlogists from around the world. Malley told WWN that The Zeebans along with aliens from Planet Xixuc have been landing on the planet for months. He said that the aliens from Planet Gootan are arriving in November – and it appears they may be hostile.
"We have issued a Code Purple for all the countries in the world to prepare to the invasion," Malley told WWN.
Well, why hasn't it been reported in the mainstream media? Why is it listed as a hoax on some internet sites?
Malley said that the U.N. is battling governments around the world. "Most governments have adopted the policy of denial and cover-up. We disagree one hundred percent with that approach. We think citizens of Earth need to prepare."
WWN is following the invasion closely.
Meanwhile, Hawser's family and Norris are searching for her in the mountains around Sante Fe – hoping that the alien will return and bring her home safely.
Hopefully, she wasn't taken "up" like this:


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2 cups bread flour
¾ cup warm milk
1 1/2 tsp active dried yeast
2 tsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 tbsp butter
½ cup thick coconut milk
3 tbsp sugar
1 egg – beaten for egg wash
1. Mix the lukewarm milk, yeast and 1 tsp sugar in the mixing bowl. Leave it for a few minutes until the yeast started to bubble. Add in the butter and salt.
2. Add in the 2 cups of flour. Mix and knead the dough until it form into a smooth balls. I used KithcenAid to knead and it took about 5 minute.
3. Let the dough rest in a butter bowl until doubled in volume. Prepare and grease an 8" x 8" square pan or a round baking pan.
4. Remove the dough from bowl and divide it into 9 round balls. Place them in the baking pan, cover and let it rest again until double in size.
5. In the meantime, mix the coconut milk with the 3 tbsp of sugar (if you use can coconut milk it might be too thick or harden, you can always warm it up in the microwave oven for a few seconds)
Note: These buns will harden up a bit the next day, just warm it up in the microwave for a few second and it will soft again.


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Warm toddler slippers kittens from BureBure animal collection are hand-decorated. Each Kitty slippers pair features different cats faces.
These woolen slippers are made from natural wool which gently massages the skin and prevents sweating. Due to insulation properties of the wool fibers, you feel warm on a cold day and cool on a hot day.
1) Non slip natural latex. Wear indoor.
2) Cork & leather / suede. Slippers with 2-layered soles can be worn indoor & outdoor when it is dry weather.
3) Rubber soles. Wear indoor or outdoor.
BureBure slippers are designed to wear on bare feet. New slippers usually feel a bit tight/close-fitting. Do not worry, they gradually widen and adjust to your feet size.
When you choose felted slippers size, pick the one that is true to the feet size (or 0.5 size smaller than the normal shoe size); except the following cases:
• Size up if you plan on wearing thick socks with wool slippers.
• For wide feet, a high instep or high arches, contact us to discuss sizing options.
BureBure is a family business founded in an organic sheep farmstead in Lithuania, Northern Europe. Our items are 100 % handmade from sustainably sourced, eco-friendly materials.
We start felting slippers only when the order is confirmed. Thus, all items can be customized per your requirements.
To save Earth resources we don't use boxes for packaging. BureBure slippers come in a reusable natural linen bag.
1) Slippers with hand-stitched soles:
Dry clean or freshen up your woolen slippers by shaking them and getting rid of crumbled dirt. Clean the slippers with a vacuum cleaner and then leave to ventilate for a few hours.
2) Slippers with latex soles
Hand wash felted slippers in lukewarm water with a small amount of wool cleaning agent. Then let the footwear dry naturally at room temperature.
• Don't wear wool slippers if you are allergic to lanolin oil or sheep wool.
• Do not leave slippers with latex soles in direct sunlight.
• These slippers do not have a built-in arch or heel support.
• Actual product color can vary from the one in the picture due to different screen settings.
• If the item doesn't fit you, please contact us to discuss replacement or refund options.
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Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
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Take care of your slippers
For hand stiched soles
1) Freshen up your woolen slippers by shaking them and getting rid of crumbled dirt, clean them with the vacuum cleaner and leave to ventilate for a few hours.
2) Dry clean.
For latex soles
Hand wash felted slippers in a warm water with a small amount of wool cleaning agent. Let woolen footwear dry naturally in a room temperature.
Caution: do not leave felted slippers with latex soles in a direct sunlight!
I am happy to discuss custom orders - please contact me with your requests. Please note that we do not accept returns of items that have been personalized, such as custom orders. Customers are not allowed to return or get refunds for products which are custom made.
I'm happy to gift wrap! If you have any questions, contact me!
We offer wholesale and have a catalogue we can send out. Please email us.
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Data Entry Clerk - From Home
Company: Classified
Location: Chula Vista
Posted on: May 20, 2023
Job Description:
Data Entry Clerk (Work at Home) Full or Part time
Full or part-time positions available from home. Apply today, start tomorrow. Well-known companies such as Amazon, Coca Cola, Aldi, Pepsi, Walmart, Costco and others are allowing employees to work from home more than ever these days. Even on-demand and temp agencies such as Kelly services are helping fill the growing need for work at home positions.
Responsibilities Include:
Job brief
We are looking for a Data Entry Clerk in the internet marketing vertical. The ideal candidate will be computer savvy and a good typist with a keen eye for detail. You should be self-motivated and able to work independently. Understanding of basic data entry and administrative tasks required.
Successful candidates come from all different backgrounds ranging from full-time, part-time, entry level workers and temp workers (Kelly Services) to various positions such as retail sales, clerk , data entry, stocker, beauty, airport staff, cashier, customer service, sales, clerical, secretary, administrative assistant, warehouse, inventory, receptionist, call center and more.
You will be relied upon for having accurate and updated data that are easily accessible through a digital database.
We need to fill multiple home-based positions. Please apply on our website today!
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Pain Control
Will my child be in pain after surgery?
After surgery, there may be physical causes of pain; however, the sensation of pain also depends on complex mental and emotional factors. Determining the level of pain that your child has can be very challenging. The surgical team may use a scale of 0 to 10 or illustrations of faces to help your child describe pain. The physicians caring for your child can determine what is usual discomfort for a certain operation and give the prescribed medication; however, as parents, you know your child best. If your child is unusually agitated or withdrawn, you should let your child's healthcare team know so they can further assess the effectiveness of the prescribed medication.
What pain medications will my child receive?
There are a wide variety of pain medications that your child can receive. Your child's physician will order the specific medication(s) he/she thinks will be most effective. Your child's physician will determine this by the type of surgery your child had, your child's age and development and any previous experience your child has had with surgery and administration of pain medications.
If your child has moderate to severe pain, he/she will most likely receive narcotics during and after surgery. If your child is in the ICU after surgery, he/she may also receive sedatives along with analgesics (pain medications.) Sedatives can decrease anxiety, induce sleep and eliminate the memory of unpleasant events. Narcotics are not addictive when used for appropriate pain control.
How will my child receive pain medication?
If your child is receiving non-narcotic analgesics, they are often given in pill form for older children and as a liquid medication for younger children. Sometimes, your child may experience nausea and vomiting after surgery; in this instance, suppositories can be used if needed.
Your child may have an intravenous (IV) line after surgery, especially if he/she is staying in the hospital overnight or being admitted for several days. Many pain medications can be given in the intravenous (IV) fluids that are infusing into your child's vein.
What is an epidural pump?
During certain surgeries, epidural anesthesia is used. This type of anesthesia is given through a small catheter into the "epidural space" surrounding the spinal cord. The catheter can be connected to a pump that will give a constant flow of medication. After surgery, this catheter can be left in for one or two days.
What is a PCA pump?
PCA stands for patient-controlled analgesia. With a PCA pump, your child can receive a continuous dosage of narcotic medication through an IV, an intermittent dosage or both. With intermittent dosages, your child decides when he/she feels bad and pushes a button that administers a dosage of pain medication. For example, your child may come back from surgery with a PCA pump that has been programmed to give pain medication at a continuous dosage every hour. The pump can also be programmed for your child to give additional amounts of medication when he/she needs it, by pushing a button. The dosage is determined by your child's physician, and your child cannot give him/herself too much. The day after surgery, your child's surgeon may discontinue the continuous infusion, and then only intermittent dosages will be given when the button is pushed. The pump settings can only be adjusted by your child's healthcare team with a special key. Children as young as four years old have been shown to use PCA pumps effectively.
Will my child receive analgesics (pain medications) at home?
Your child's physician will discuss with you the need for medications at home. If your child will still require narcotics, you will be given these prescriptions before your child is discharged.
Relieving my child's discomfort
Parents can comfort their child better than anyone else. The following are some suggestions that might prove helpful in comforting your child:
- All children need to be held, stroked and touched by those that are most important to them. Ask for help from the nursing staff if you would like to hold your child, especially if you are not exactly sure how to go about it because of equipment or bandages.
- Play is a familiar part of your child's day. It can help relieve tension for both of you and can also provide distraction that helps your child feel better. If your child is able to be up and out of bed, ask about the playroom in the hospital that he/she can go to. Also, bring story books, coloring books, puzzles, board games and other toys that can be used in bed.
- Ask what entertainment options are available for your child to use in bed or in the playroom, such as movies or video games.
- Music can be very comforting and has been shown to relieve muscle tension.
- Ask to speak with a child life specialist who may be able to offer additional coping strategies for your child.


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Tampa Police say overnight they arrested 29 members of Occupy Tampa in a riverside park west of downtown. Before the arrests about 40 people attempted to camp on a hill inside the park, but many people complied with police orders to leave.
The hilltop encampment in Julian Lane Riverfront Park was in plain view for police helicopters. More than a dozen Tampa Police vehicles arrived on the scene before midnight. Tampa Police Captain Brian Dugan and at least 20 other officers threatened to arrest anyone who would not leave the park. He told protesters they had to collect their belongings and leave, but he was interrupted by the people's mic.
Occupy Tampa's goal was to occupy a public park for the whole month of December. More than 100 demonstrators marched from their permanent encampment outside Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park to Riverfront Park.
Before the group was arrested it chanted, "We are unstoppable, another world is possible," and also recited the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Jordan Harrah had not been protesting that night, but entered the park to see what was happening. He said he was unjustly given an official trespass warning.
About four people had set up tents, and two dozen other protesters laid out sleeping bags. But when police arrived to evict their new encampment, many of the group left. Daiquiri Jones has a pending felony charge, and wasn't originally planning to get arrested.
Several people called the police racist for targeting Jones, who is African American. Occupy Tampa's Chris Kuleci was one witness.
The crowd burst into chanting the word shame at officers. Lieutenant Bucher walked about 30 yards toward the sidewalk, and pushed Occupy Tampa's journalist Mike Madison into the park, and then issued him a verbal trespass warning.
But Madison said he was more concerned that Daiquiri Jones might be locked up for a while.
Some members called it a test run for their potential month long occupation of a park, but protesters seemed content with the new location. Kade Kelly set up his camp atop the hill earlier that night, hoping that the group could also make a difference in the community.
The group also called attention to World AIDS Day, and they held a candlelight vigil before laying down their bedding. Owen Gaither called for solidarity with other political movements.
After police left, at least two members of Occupy Tampa continued to sleep on the park grass overnight, to show solidarity with those arrested. 62 protesters have been arrested since Occupy Tampa began sleeping overnight in public 55 days ago.


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Well, I did a bang up job last year with my One Word for 2017: Accept. I didn't. I raged, raged against the…everything. It was brutal choosing a focus for the year and I faltered. Failed. Time to move on.
As I've mentioned numerous times, I don't do 'resolutions'. However, I do believe (previous failure aside) a focus for the year is an excellent idea.
This is how I figured 2017 would work out. It did not. But, still, props for trying:
Choosing ONE word for the entire year? Not easy. I finally narrowed it down to three:
I want to be more present in my life and I realized that, if I fully engage, I can be. And to engage, I need to accept some things. (This is how I worked it out, anyway.)
Therefore, my one word this year is:
I'm going to try again.
I've really had a time of it, this year, choosing a word. I even thought of cheating and picking two (or three). But, if I'm going to do this thing, I'm going to do it right. So I'll work it out again.
I like the words I narrowed it down to:
I had passing thoughts of choosing something like Assertiveness, Determination, or Focus but they didn't feel quite right. It's just that I've been yammering on this past year about standing my ground, choosing me, sticking up for myself, keeping on target, saying "NO", etc. so these seemed good, too.
It's all about me, right? Sure. Why not? I went into this weird line of hyphenated "self" stuff:
Self… Er…
Self… Um…
Crap. Never mind.
But I do need something "self"-like.
So, when continuing to narrow down my choice, I decided it must include me.
I'm sick of being stressed-out and overwhelmed, of not doing what I love, of doing things I'd really rather not be doing. I'm sick of ALL OF THE THINGS!
Every year around this time I say, "It's going to be different." Well, gentle readers, it's not. It's quite the same. Which is to say, I let myself get caught up in a shitstorm of stress and overwhelm by choosing others instead of myself, by over-committing, by working too hard on things that don't bring fulfillment or happiness, by helping everyone but me.
Forget it! I'm done. Or, at least, my OneWord is done. And here it is:
This is my favorite definition from Webster's New Explorer College Dictionary:
combining form: to, with, for, or toward oneself
See? I'll be kind to, gentle with, caring for, considerate toward…myself. Brilliant.
By choosing Self, I'll be incorporating all sorts of other wonderful words I've been thinking of here: Awareness, Mindful, Focus, Kindness… How can I have Self in front of me and actively abuse or dismiss it? I cannot. It would be awkward. And weird. And mean.
As I said last year, this is not going to be easy. I've got to change my whole mindset to get to the point where Self is what I focus on first. I'm up for the challenge though.
I'm taking my Self out of here, wishing you a Happy New Year and hoping you all can find a perfect OneWord for 2018. ❤
Have you ever taken part in the One Word Challenge?
If you haven't, why not try it? Or think on it a moment and leave one in the comments. What could your focus be this year? I'd love to hear what your One Word is for 2018.


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